Astronomy:NGC 630

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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation of Sculptor
NGC 630
NGC 630.jpg
NGC 630 (left) and ESO 297-8 (right) with DECam
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationSculptor
Right ascension 01h 35m 36.475s[1]
Declination−39° 21′ 28.39″[1]
Redshift0.01976±0.00006[2]
Helio radial velocity5,923.90±18.89[2]
Distance275.2 ± 19.3 Mly (84.39 ± 5.92 Mpc)[2]
Characteristics
TypeSA0−(rs):[2]
Other designations
ESO 297-9, PGC 5924[3]

NGC 630 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It is estimated to be 275 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 125,000[citation needed] light years. The object was discovered on October 23, 1835 by the English astronomer John Herschel.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 de Vaucouleurs, G. et al. (1991). Third reference catalogue of bright galaxies. 3.9. New York: Springer-Verlag. 
  3. ↑ "NGC 630". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+630. 
  4. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 630 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC630. 
  5. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+630&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES. 
  6. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 630". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20630. 




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